US Murder in Central America
"You can never tell a colonial power that they don't own what they've stolen"
Guatemala. A country torn by civil war. Corporatists with US backing and military personnel trained by US forces and the School of the Americas (SOA). I was going into a country of which I was ignorant – of political and social forces. “You don’t know what you don’t know.” But I know now. Indigenous people were being executed if they failed in any way to accept and endorse the European/US capitalist agenda. That agenda often included theft of land, murder, mayhem, rape, and torture (all by the government and government forces in league with, and with the blessing of, the US). Whole villages were wiped out because they had socialist leanings (they wanted to keep their land and property and not be forced to hand everything over to oligarchs growing the system. (I know! The nerve!). Why did the US have to do the dirty work for the Guatemalan (Salvadoran, Colombian, Honduran, Panamanian, Mexican…) “super duper supermen”, when we had trained them how to butcher? Perhaps, because they didn’t have C-130 gunships, but yet, they had great pals in the CIA who could order up gunships for them to be “Any Time, Any Place”.
X Rubicon - Cache Out 1
(X Rubicon w/ Luke Kelly - The Sun Is Burning)
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Rubicon spent just under three years as a military Scout. During that time he was awarded the “AF Cross, 2 Silver Stars, 4 Bronze Stars, Defense Superior Service Medal, AF Good Conduct Medal, and the CIA Distinguished Service Medal” (ODNI). When he refused to kill further, he was stripped of these awards and was abandoned with his PTSD by the military and thrown away.
Sean Griobhtha (gree-O-tah) is a combat veteran. His latest book is X Rubicon: Crossing Life, Sex, Love, & Killing in CIA Proxy Wars: An indictment of US Citizens: ignorantia non excusat, which details the life of Rubicon, another combat veteran. You can find him mostly on SubStack. He can be reached at O.Griobhtha+XRubicon@gmail.com. It’s important that you read the Foreward {Vanguard); written by a highly intelligent woman with a heart of empathetic gold; she’ll bring you in gently, which neither Rubicon nor I would ever do.